This weekends chineese grand prix

[Ben]

ok then, a pre emtive strike here.

in advance of the chineese grand prix on the 19/10/08

Regardless of the positions at the chequered flag (unless the fezzers are 1st and 2nd) how will ferrari increase thair points tally for the weekend?

[Cold Side]

Lewis will be docked points for speeding.

[MalcQV]

Ferrari will knock a few cars off the road and then the teams knocked off get a penalty

Mind you that wazzock Hamilton will probably loose his cool as he gets beaten off the line and take the whole lot out!

[sharalaxy]

Glad to see other people feel the same, what interests me is why no one dishes the dirt on Ferrari, Raikonen is probably driving so badly because he expected even more favours from the FIA or is it that he didn't know how bad it was (cheating) until he got to Ferrari that now he's not motivated.

I've watched every single F1 race thats been broadcast and used to even take a TV and generator to a field years back when I worked outdoors, it breaks my heart, I've been an alcoholic and stopped drinking succesfully I lost 8 stone in weight for a charity yet I find it so hard to not watch a F1 race even though they have wrecked it by cheating, however they can get away with it beggers belief.

My prediction is some driver will encure a penalty which favours Ferrari over the weekend unless Massa wins with Lewis 3rd or worse, I suspect if he does win and Lewis is behind they might find it harder to find another excuse.

Don't forget they can have a FIA steward in the McLaren pits at the last race and order them to turn Lewis's gearbox off again like last year!!!

[MalcQV]

I think the FIA are trying in their tiny stupid way to keep the excitement going to the end, they are pi$$ing most folk off though. I have mentioned before that for two years Renault won the championship twice and Ferrari were ****, so I believe (being a Ferrari fan) that the FIA just don't like McLaren. The thing is we have a good if arrogant Lewis Hamilton and the British are behind him (except me ) but if you look outside the UK he is not that well liked especially after last weeks start.

I do wish the FIA would leave them alone though.

I don't think Raikkonen expects anything from anyone. The way he keeps his cool at least on TV is unbelievable to the point he is dull He can't win this year so even the FIA could not do anything about that . Not sure why the dirt should be dished on him though? Massa has been as bad in his driving as Hamilton, it seems both are under pressure and not handling it well at all.

[Soundmangt4]

F - Ferrari
I - International
A - Assistance

[sharalaxy]

I think the FIA are trying in their tiny stupid way to keep the excitement going to the end, they are pi$$ing most folk off though. I have mentioned before that for two years Renault won the championship twice and Ferrari were ****, so I believe (being a Ferrari fan) that the FIA just don't like McLaren. The thing is we have a good if arrogant Lewis Hamilton and the British are behind him (except me ) but if you look outside the UK he is not that well liked especially after last weeks start.

I do wish the FIA would leave them alone though.

I don't think Raikkonen expects anything from anyone. The way he keeps his cool at least on TV is unbelievable to the point he is dull He can't win this year so even the FIA could not do anything about that . Not sure why the dirt should be dished on him though? Massa has been as bad in his driving as Hamilton, it seems both are under pressure and not handling it well at all.

Sorry my miss use of words, I think Raikonnen is the one who could dish the dirt on the FIA, when he won last years championship he didn't look overly happy to me almost like he didn't win by his own merit.
I found it hard to take that both McLarens could manage to do nothing and Hamiltons suffered a gearbox glitch of which I don't remember ever seeing before or after, and given that if he (Hamilton) had managed to win the championship in China he was ordered by the FIA that he could not celebrate on the podium. Personally I think McLaren had a lot more info on Ferarri last year than was shown and behind closed doors McLaren forced to let the Ferarri team win, they had a difficult situation Hamilton did nothing wrong Alonso was up to his neck in it and in many respects McLaren knew most things about Ferarri internal workings, it wouldn't have been fair to let a McLaren driver win the championship even in my eye's.
Then it's seemed to get worse and worse almost when someone tells a small lie and it gets out of control, looks to me like the FIA will be trying to make McLaren pay forever.

Then there's a maybe racial point of view with Hamilton, some years back we had a black guy Narian Karthikayen who drove for Jorden yet when Hamilton came along he was the first black F1 driver and it was said MANY times on ITV, I e mailed them about it and got a response but no changes were ever made yet over the years I have pointed out several errors to ITV F1 and all of them have been corrected either on the ITV text pages on 480 or live on TV. I haven't pursued it I mentioned it twice and got 2 replies so for some reason they want to use Hamilton as the first black F1 driver.

Have you seen Moselys lastest idiotic idea?

"The FIA will today open the tender process for the appointment of a third party supplier of engines and transmission systems to be used by competitors in the 2010, 2011 and 2012 FIA Formula One World Championship," said an FIA statement.

Mosley had previously suggested that his preference was for the teams to use identical engines and gearboxes, but with the option for manufacturers to put their own individual branding on the units even though they would be the same as those used by all their rivals

That's good for Mercedes McLaren like Mercedes supply the engine so effectively their part in the team would be useless and they actually part own McLaren they're not just a sponsor.

Mosely must have some different thought patterns to us as shown by his dungeon antics, maybe he wants to wreck F1 before he retires who knows.

[MalcQV]

I concur ^. With the latest on the France GP not going ahead and sponsors holding onto their own money I am not sure F1 can keep running as it does. Though what Mosley suggested we already have in A1GP?

Personally if that happens I won't bother watching F1 as I don't bother with the A1GP (which I think is using Ferrari engines next season).

[Borab0y]

After the last race Ferarri will think the Bourdais stunt worked well so they will aim for Lewis as he comes out of the pit to get him penalised, they could also Presuede the Toro Rosso's to do the same.

Then they'll cry if someone overtakes them and get them a drive through, then anyone else who dares not more over when the red car is behind will be taken away and shot by an FIA official.

Theres alot who slate Lewis but Micheal Schumaker was not always liked by other drivers. Look at the incedent where he parked his car on the corner to obstruct Alonso during qually.

I say carry on Lewis, the odd mistake is part of the game and lets face they all make mistakes and some overtaking makes it more interesting, at least he has the balls to try an overtake unlike most of the others who like to follow each other like sheep.

[MalcQV]

Mr Shoemaker had to get his towel on the sun bed I will have you know.
I see Mr Hamilton in the same light as MS in many ways. I am told it is part of a very good F1 drivers psyche, who knows?

I hate him, he drives for McLaren, but when he drives for Ferrari I will love him